John gymnast The Tories and Europe.

John gymnast The Tories and Europe. (Political Analyses.) Manchester: Manchester University Press; dist. by the agency of Palgrave, New York. 2000 Pp xi, 283 ISBN 0-7190-3795-6

This main division examines why "Europe became the Achilles' heel of late twentieth-century Tory politics" (p 38) dealing mainly with the period between Margaret Thatcher's initial victory in 1979 and the Conservatives' downfall in 1997 Turner's methodology is that of political science, yet historians of the modern party will be upon familiar ground and will find a persuasive dissection of the Tories'

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